Redefiniton Lyrics

Redefiniton lyrics

[Intro - Mos Def]

Wha-wha-wha, wha-wha, wha-wha, wha-wha/

Wo-aaaahhhhhhh!/

One, two, three/

Mos Def and Talib Kweli/

We came to rock it on to the tip-top/

Best alliance in hip-hop, wo-ahh/

I said, one, two, tree, Blackstar shine eternally/

We came to rock it on to the tip-top/

And Hi-Tek make the beats drop, wo-ahh/



[Verse 1 - Talib Kweli]

RE:DEFinition, turning your play into a tragedy/

Exhibit level degree on the mic, passionately/

Niggaz is sweet, so I bet if I bit I'd get a cavity/

Livin' to get high, you ain't flyer than gravity/

We Die Hard like the battery/

Done in the back of me by the mad MC/

Who think imitation is the highest form of flattery/

Actually, don't be mad at me/

I had to be the one to break it to you/

You get kicked into obscurity like judo, no Menudo/

'Cause you pseudo, tryin' to compete with reality like Xerox/

Towards destruction you spiraling like hairlocks/

Wipe them teardrops/

Chasing stars in your eyes/ 

Playing games with your lives/

Now the wives is widows soakin' up pillows/

Weepin like willows/

Still mo' blacks is dyin'/

Kids ain't livin they tryin'/

"How to Make a Slave" by Willie Lynch is still applyin/

Regardless, the Mos is one of my closest partners/

Rockin ever since before Prince was called The Artist/

Rocker before Funkmaster Flex was rockin Starter/

When 'Pac and Biggie was still cool before they was martyrs/

Life or death, if I'm choosin with every breath I'm enhancin'/

Stop, there comes a time when you can't run/



[Verse 2 - Mos Def]

Lyrically handsome/

Call collect, a king's ransom/

Jams I write soon become the ghetto anthem/

Way out like Bruce Wayne's mansion/

Move like a phantom/

You'll talk about me to your grandsons/

Cats who claimin they hard be mad fag/

So I run through 'em like flood water through sandbags/

Competition is mad, what I got, they can't have/

Sinkin' they ship, like Moby Dick, did Ahab/

Son I'm way past the minimum/

It's a verb millenium/

My rap's the holy gas in your bag, like Palestinians/

Ancient Abyssinia, sure to hold the Gideon/

Official b-boy gentlemen/

Long term, never the interim/

Born inside the winter wind, day after December 10/

These simpletons, they mentionin the synonym for feminine/

Sweeter than some cinnamon from Danish rings by Entenmann's/

Rush up on adrenaline/

They get they asses sent to them/

(Gentlemen) you got a tenement/

Well then assemble it!/

Leave your unit tremblin like herds of movin elephant/

Intelligent embellishment/

Follow for your element from Flatbush settlement/

Did posseses melanin/

Hotter than tales of crack peddlin/

Makin em "WOOP" like blue gelatin/

Swing like Duke Ellington/

Broader than Barrington Levy/

Believe me/

The hot oppresion rent who burn down your chief teepee/

You see me?/



[Outro - Mos Def]

One, two, three/

Mos Def and Talib Kweli/

We came to rock it on to the tip-top/

Best alliance in hip-hop, wo-ahh/

I said, one, two, three/

Black Star shine eternally/

We came to rock it on to the tip-top/

Because we rulin hip-hop/

Yes we is rulin hip-hop/

Talib Kweli is rulin hip-hop/

Say we Black Star/

We rulin hip-ho-ah-ahh-ah-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh/

Woahhhh!/